State community colleges are at the center of solving regional workforce development challenges across the United States.  Community colleges are affordable public colleges, funded by tax dollars. The highest degree available at a community college is usually an associate degree, which takes full-time students about two years to complete.  Most importantly, community colleges are successful […]

Chasing megaprojects is the headline of 2022.  EV and computer chip factories offer billion-dollar investments and Governors across the nation are spending billions of dollars to lure these companies to their states.  Movie junkies who will remember a young Robert Redford in the 1972 movie “The Candidate” starring as an unlikely and then successful candidate

Housing is joining workforce development to become a major corporate site location issue.  Growing regions like Central Ohio are developing 2.5 jobs for every 1 residential permit creating a housing shortage.  Regions not growing are failing to develop substantial residential growth.  Finally, rural regions are losing population at an alarming rate and desperately need new

Five million Americans have simply left the workforce since COVID-19.  That is the size of the state of Alabama and a bigger group of people than the population of every American city except for New York City. In fact, In 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), over 47 million Americans voluntarily quit their

Montrose Group, LLC is proud of our client Accenture who produced The Blueprint for Ohio’s Economic Future which is a comprehensive report that focuses on the key areas for economic growth and improvement for the state of Ohio.  Based on the findings and recommendations in the Blueprint, the Ohio Chamber will leverage the report to provide

The re-election of Governor Mike Dewine by a huge margin and the addition of new Republican seats to the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives for the upcoming 135th Ohio General Assembly cements Republican leadership for at least two if not four more years.  The next big thing coming to the Ohio Statehouse is

The decision of the Ohio General Assembly to place a political party label on candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio Court of Appeals had a direct impact on the success or failure of candidates for judicial office in Ohio.  This conclusion is based upon on the results of the election of judges at

The 2022 Ohio General Election saw Republicans cement the state as a GOP stronghold. While Democrats were able to limit electoral loses at both the congressional and state legislature level including in Michigan and Pennsylvania, Ohio’s GOP made a clean sweep of all the Ohio Statewide offices including the highly contested U.S. Senate race and

Montrose Group is a national economic development and public policy consulting company that provides corporate site location, economic development planning and lobbying services. The Montrose Group in 2022 is providing a series of free economic development and public policy professional development events. Please join the Montrose Group for a free webinar on Friday, November 4,